1984: Can you escape Big Brother in our modern society?
- 07/09/15 02:14 PM
In part 1 of this blog, we relayed the story of how a young writer named Henry David Thoreau moved to a remote path of woods by Walden Pond in 1845, where he built a humble cabin and lived a Spartan existence. When Thoreau emerged more than two years later, he had produced the manuscript to Walden, a memoir that trumpeted the virtues of simplicity, as well as the perils of conformity to modern industrial society. And while that was more than 150 years ago, Thoreau’s words still serve as the touchstone of what many people now are trying to achieve – taking … (0 comments)
In part 1 of this blog, we relayed the story of how a young writer named Henry David Thoreau moved to a remote path of woods by Walden Pond in 1845, where he built a humble cabin and lived a Spartan existence. When Thoreau emerged more than two years later, he had produced the manuscript to Walden, a memoir that trumpeted the virtues of simplicity, as well as the perils of conformity to modern industrial society. And while that was more than 150 years ago, Thoreau’s words still serve as the touchstone of what many people now are trying to achieve – taking … (0 comments)
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